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Forget Vincent Jackson’s massive salary and take a look at some football reality, says one former Buccaneer. [read more]

Joe suggested it before and it bears repeating. A team as sloppy as the Bucs, as undisciplined as the Bucs, and as reckless as the Bucs, that points to one person at the end of the day. That man’s name is Lovie Smith.

Finally, it seems Lovie has reached his boiling point. After losing to the Bengals, the head coach stopped short of calling out players but didn’t spare harsh words such as “stupid” and “dumb.” [read more]

Joe’s got his calculator out, and it showsTampa Bay is on track to equal its sacks total of 2013.

Wait a minute. [read more]

The architect of the Buccaneers defense, Lovie Smith, disagrees with the common perception that his defense is difficult to learn. [read more]

Tampa Bay fans — the few still engaged that have not gone apathetic like most — came away from the near-win against Cincinnati, a division leader, with various degrees of outrage.

First, why can’t anyone on the Bucs count to 12?

Isn’t there some coach’s grandson who has nothing better to do than whine about when he will go to Dairy Queen the Bucs could hire to count to 12? [read more]

From the time Joe played for a former NFL player who counted among his mentors Tom Landry, John Madden, Gene Stallings and Lou Holtz, Joe has always believed a good football coach adapts to his talent, to the changes in the game and is open-minded.

It’s great to hold firm to core beliefs, but football is cyclical. Good football coaches learn something new almost every week. The game is always changing. [read more]

An NFL Network report has Joe thinking a Mike Glennon trade offer is likely. [read more]

Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, national champion James Winston, the pride of Florida State University, continues to look like a much better quarterback prospect than Mike Glennon and Josh McCown.

It’s Joe’s daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida. [read more]

Lovie Smith was asked today whether he is angry.

Lovie didn’t deny his inner rage. [read more]

Joe thought it was honorable of Bucs head coach Lovie Smith to fall on his sword yesterday and say it was his responsibility to make sure there are not 12 men on the field (much less on consecutive plays).

He is right; at the end of the day, foul ups fall in the lap of the man in charge.

Joe has written you can decide for yourself who the guilty party was, per Josh McCown’s explanation. It frankly wasn’t Lovie. To hear from the man who hired Lovie to coach the Bears, as many as four assistant coaches were asleep at the switch. [read more]

Joe’s noticed a trend. [read more]

Per theMMQB.com editor Peter King, the Bucs had 12 men on the field in consecutive plays on the final drive.

Joe simply cannot fathom how the following took place. On the potential game-winning drive, the Bucs had 12 men on the field. Geez.

Look, we are all human. We all make mistakes. But most NFL teams — hell, high school teams — have safeguards to prevent penalties that push a team out of field goal range. [read more]

Twice during Tampa Bay’s nut-kick loss to the Bengals yesterday, Joe Twittered out in ecstasy because much maligned Da’Quan Bowers made a play.

Clinton McDonald’s hamstring injury set up Bowers to avoid the inactive list and get a chance at some snaps. [read more]

A Bucs running back issued a telling quote

Joe has said, since the loss to Minnesota, that the Bucs defense turned the corner from the woeful seal-clubbings by the likes of the Dixie Chicks and the Crows. Totally chain-whipped.

Joe pointed to holding the Vikings to 13 points in regulation. If a defense holds an NFL team to a mere 13 points, it should celebrate a victory. [read more]

Regular readers might recall that Joe took a massive beating on these here pages when Joe had the nerve compel readers to click a “read more” button on stories beginning last November.

The gall of Joe to operate his site like the rest of the Internet! Readers would leave Joe in droves, so many predicted. [read more]

Caution: The following may induce vomiting. [read more]

Damn that former rockstar general manager Mark Dominik.

How dare he even live in Tampa any longer after drafting guys like Johnthan Banks and Lavonte David in the second round, plucking a practice squad slug like Danny Lansanah, and signing a safety off the street like Bradley McDougald. [read more]

A Cincinnati newspaper story is especially interesting considering Michael Johnson’s poor play.

The search for defensive end Michael Johnson’s A-game continues. Some might say his B-game hasn’t arrived in Tampa, either.

Joe’s called Johnson an apparition. Others prefer the term “bust.” [read more]

Mike Evans hauls in a Josh McCown pass Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)

A long look at the Bucs yesterday, today, and what to expect tomorrow and beyond.

When the Bucs lost to the Vikings in overtime, Joe deemed the defense had turned the corner. Holding an NFL team to 13 points in regulation is damned good.

However, Bucs defenders all told Joe, no, they had not turned the corner. You won’t hear them saying that now. [read more]

Dalton’s condition was revealed

The way Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton played in the first half, with the Bucs picking him off three times, it was enough to make NFL fans vomit.

On Twitter, Dalton’s woes were widely discussed. It made some sick watching Dalton try to throw. [read more]

It was a crazy sequence. The Bucs had just gotten into field goal range in the waning seconds with 12 players on the field. All kinds of people had their head up their rear end including the 12th man — you can decide who to blame — as well as the refs.

Yes, there are multiple referees who are supposed to count the players on each team. They also blew it. Marvin Lewis didn’t. [read more]